Ken S. McAllister is professor of public & applied humanities and associate dean of research & program innovation in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the co-director of the Learning Games Initiative and studies the intersections of play, magic, and technology.

Judd Ethan Ruggill is professor and head of the Department of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona, and co-director of the Learning Games Initiative. He primarily researches play and its attendant technologies, industries, and socio-cultural phenomena.